"Further Study"

Casting about for a civilian front man to head their regime and give it some badly needed prestige, members of Venezuela's military junta last week looked hopefully at Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldon, famed organizer of Venezuela's outstandingly successful fight against malaria. They wanted Dr. Gabaldon, a nonparty man, to take the place of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, assassinated during an abortive revolt in Caracas (TIME, Nov. 20).

Gabaldon tentatively accepted the job, but added one condition: all political parties must be represented in the new government. Hard-bitten Lieut. Colonel Marcos Perez Jimenez, the junta's boss, spurned the terms as "too idealistic." This week the junta installed German Suarez Flammerich, ex-ambassador to Peru and a nonparty man like Gabaldon, as its new president. Flammerich presumably made no idealistic conditions. As for elections, which Venezuela has long hoped for, Boss Perez Jimenez said that was a problem calling for "further study."

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